7 Black Poets Every Student Should Read

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7 Black Poets Every Student Should Read

By Aziah Siid | Word In Black (WIB) - Put a poem to a beat, and you have hip hop. But depending on the school or classroom, not every child gets to fully experience the beauty of meter, rhyme, and imaginative awareness in its rawest form. And although there’s nothing wrong with reading the poems […]

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